Being | Free Book
About the Author
Born in 1960 into a working-class family in South-East England,
Nathan Gill’s early fascination with the mysteries of the body
and the universe led him to experiment with diet and herbal
treatments, and to push his body to the limit with weight-training and
body-building. When a shoulder injury brought the weight-training to
an end, his thoughts turned to spiritual and esoteric matters. His
investigations led him to the teachings of Da Free John, whose message
that we are already awake and need no liberation struck a strong
chord, and eventually to Tony Parsons and the philosophy of
non-duality.
One day, in September 1998, when Nathan was gardening in the drizzling
rain: “I looked up, and there was a subtle sense of ‘me’ not being
there. I got on my bike and cycled around the lanes and it seemed as
though there was a movie going on, without any effort necessary on my
part to be taking part in it.”
Whilst this event had a profound impact on him, he came to discover
that such happenings where the ‘I’ suddenly disappears could actually
be very confusing: “Such an event may last a few seconds or ten years
or more, but unless the ‘I’ is seen for what it is – as simply a
thought – then when this ‘I’ returns, there is a sense of loss, a
sense of confinement in being an identified character again.”
He went on to hold meetings where, with characteristic humour and
acuity, he shared his profound understanding that: “Any coming and
going is merely the play of life. As far as Your nature as Being is
concerned, the absence or presence of a personal self is
inconsequential. Being simply is, and all of these appearances and
happenings may simply be described as the cosmic entertainment.”
During his years of spiritual seeking, Nathan was divorced, married
and divorced again, a single parent to his two daughters throughout
most of their school years, working as a gardener in a small village
in Kent. His health, however, never robust, deteriorated increasingly
over time and he became weaker and weaker. Unable to work and with no
prospect of a cure, rather than live in pain and dependency, in June
2014 he took the decision to end his own life.
- Title: Being | Free Book
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